Supply Chain Illustrated

Sometimes Supply Chain feels harder than Mission Impossible. Is five seconds really enough warning prior to something self-destructing?

Employee Satisfaction Index. What if we could measure the work enjoyment level of our employees?

MRP telling you that you should have ordered parts a week ago is not sufficient (or funny anymore).

“And then the data we feed into that long chain of precision is the opposite of precise. Or maybe more accurately - it’s Precisely Wrong.”

“Something about focusing on our capabilities, and tying our operational strategies to the corporate vision, wasn’t it?

Why your S&OP is disappointing you.

Instead of using the interview process to explain about the details of the expected job performance, we can do better.

Here’s my challenge question to you. What do we use in our lives that hasn’t appreciably changed in 20 to 50 years?

Side note: When you compensate by increasing the safety stock level, it doesn’t make this problem go away. It makes it worse.

So, as we slowly spin into chaos, we have to finally admit that trying to use a tool based on precision and exactness creates a challenge...